More like Steam Dreck haha amirite haha gimme validation

Managed to get one in the cart then it wouldnt let me pay as it kept crashing and then telling me I was trying to pay too many times.
Left it for an hour came back and thought it was game over but went through

What size did you get?
I went for 256 as I know I will end up putting windows on it for some reason (e.g. PS5 remote play)

Aye, that's the trade off

Worst case early reviews are shite and you out £4 into your steam wallet.

I'm not 100% sure, but it's looking like you will be able to add NVME storage if you are handy with a screwdriver and pry tool -

All models use socketed 2230 m.2 modules (not intended for end-user replacement)

From the tech specs page.

If there is just a standard m.2 socket in there then that means you could get the cheaper 64GB Deck and chuck in a reasonably priced 1tb SSD and get much better storage.

It will run it, but the performance/quality remains to be seen. Expect medium/low settings for new fancy lookin games if you want a high framerate. The beauty of this thing just being a computer is that you will be able to adjust the graphics settings and stuff to get the performance and quality that you like, rather than being stuck with whatever preset the devs give you. Want 60FPS? Lower the settings (will probably still look good on the small screen).

GurtTractor wrote:

It will run it, but the performance/quality remains to be seen. Expect medium/low settings for new fancy lookin games if you want a high framerate.

Noted. If this thing turns out to be Not Pony (TM), I'll definitely be interested. I currently lack a way of playing RE Village; on my laptop it turns into a PowerPoint whenever I enter combat.

If Microsoft were to support this with Gamepass along with their back catalogue it’d be a lot more difficult to resist.  If I could play something like Lost Odyssey I’d be really tempted.

The things that are gonna be make or break for me are fan noise. One of the reasons I don’t always break out the laptop. And battery life. 2 to 8 is quite a range.

I’d have though most games running at 720p should be fine once you’ve tweaked settings.

MyNamesKrisG wrote:

1.6 TFlops is about equivalent to a PS4 isn't it?

Teraflops can't easily be compared across generations, but various people seem to reckon similar GPU power to the previous gen consoles yeah. We'll know for sure once the likes of Digital Foundry get their hands on one.

The CPU on the other hand is quite a bit better than the last gen, but not as powerful as the new machines or most current gaming PCs. It should be plenty good enough for most games though, just don't try and run some really intense simulator and expect smooth performance. I'm really curious if Noita will be ok on it, it can chug a little in some areas even on my machine.

Kow wrote:

I'd say only about 5% of my library is triple A stuff anyway, and I wouldn't want to play it on a tiny screen.

I think this is really it.  I wouldn’t want to play BIG games on something like this.  It would be a retro (and I use that term loosely) device for me.

Is this the moment apu's take over? Couple that to upscaling tech like FSA and DLSS maturing and these handhelds will become standards of their own. As this new hw standard matures even docked 4k will be possible at one point.

But, battery life at 720p/1080p will be king. It's probably the reason why the Switch didn't get a pro ed. That, and that sales curve.

It’s is and own it

I think they had some kind of breakthrough in PS2 emulation recently so this thing might be able to do a decent job of that. I guess resolution might be an issue though - PS2 uses 480 vertical resolution and Deck has 800 so you couldn't even 2x integer scale.